- Archaeological evidence of donkey domestication from Egypt.
- Empower women farmers to ensure food security. Sounds like a plan.
- Good reporter visits good bee research centre. Read all about it.
- Genomics blog discovers CGIAR databases, love at first sight.
Nibbles: New Agriculturist, nutrition
- Latest New Agriculturist online with nice piece on the alpaca y mucho mas…
- A call for the consumption of more traditional foods in Botswana — “one-stop shop for the best health and nutrition.”
Nibbles: Gene smuggling, teaching, UG99, fungi, fermentation, horse, livestock
- Customs unit seizes smuggled chromosomes, Sri Lankan academics uncooperative.
- Teachers urged to use Global Seed Vault in lessons; native Memphian available for comment today!
- No UG99 in Pakistan (yet). Optimism abounds everywhere.
- Cool new book: Fungi in the Ancient World.
- And on a related topic: full text (kinda) of old(ish) book on fermented foods.
- New book peddles old how-horse-domestication-changed-the-world (or at least Europe) story. Prof. Renfrew has already commented. Lengthily.
- Livestock need a Svalbard too. Old, but the videos are nice, and I don’t think we linked to this before.
Nibbles: Meeting, UG99, carnival, autocthonous cattle, nutrition, blackberry, garlic
- Seed Savers Network 20th annual meeting on 28 March near Mudgee, NSW, Australia.
- UG99 wheat rust reaches Iran.
- Tangled Bank 100 ((Congratulations of some sort are surely in order.)) is up. Are all those spelling mistakes ironic?
- Czech red cow in bad shape, no bull.
- USDA tries in different ways to raise the nutrient content of crops. Jeremy unavailable for comment.
- Guess where the world centre of blackberry breeding is. Did you say Arkansas? Didn’t think so.
- Thai garlic is best, say Thais.
Nibbles: Potatoes, livestock, artemesia
- File under “never too late”: Ireland diversifies its potatoes.
- UK establishes livestock breeds committee. Not concerned about species?
- “All I think of is more and more artemesia,” says shilling millionaire Ugandan farmer.